various plants of Gor
also check the foods page and there you will
find alot of fruits and vegetables that is found on Gor as well
the edible ones won't be included here unless it's the tree they grow on
Brak Bush
Branches of this plant are nailed over doors during the to discourage bad luck from entering the house in the New Year."Almost all doors, including that of the House of Cernus, had nailed to them some branches of the Brak Bush, the leaves of which, when chewed, have a purgative effect. It is thought that...the branches of the Brak Bush discourage entry of bad luck into the houses of the citizens."
Assassin of Gor page 211Cacao Trees
It is not improbable that the beans from which the first cacao trees on this world were grown were brought from Earth
"Do the trees grow near here?" I asked.
"No, Mistress," she said. We obtain the beans, from which the chocolate is made, from Cosian merchants, who in turn, obtain them from the tropics.
Kajira of Gor Page 61Carpet Plant
A plant of the rainforest area inland of Schendi, having tendrils that are sometimes used as a source of drinking waterI then rose to my feet and walked a few yards away, to a fan palm. From the base of one of its broad leaves I gathered a double handful of fresh water. I returned to the girl and carefully, washed out the wound. She winced. I then cut some leaves and wrapped them about it. I tied shut this simple bandage with the tendrils of a carpet plant.
Explorers of Gor Page 347Colored Grass
several hues used in pleasure gardens of TuriaBesides the trees there were numerous shrubs, and plantings, almost all flowered, sometimes fantastically; among the trees and the colored grasses there wound curved, shaded walks.
Nomads of Gor Pages 217-218Date Palm Tree
they are found in the oases around Tor and other Tahari cities and the dates that they yield are exported in caravans"The principal export of the oases are dates, or pressed-date bricks. Some of the date palm trees grow to more then a hundred feet high. It takes ten years before they begin to bear fruit. Then will then yield for more then a century. A given tree, annually, yields between one and five Gorean weights of fruit. A weight is some ten stone, or some forty Earth pounds."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 37Dina
A small, short-stemmed flower indigenous to hillsides resembling the rose, sometimes called the 'slave flower', it is often used as a design for slave brands; sometimes used as a slave name
"...my own brand was the 'dina', the dina is a small, lovely, multiply petaled flower, short-stemmed, and blooming in a turf of green leaves, usually on the slopes of hills, in the northern temperate zones of Gor, in its budding, though in few other ways, it resembles a rose; it is an exotic, alien flower; it is also spoken of, in the north, where it grows most frequently, as the slave flower..."Slave Girl of Gor, page 61 "But, perhaps the dina is spoken of as the slave flower merely because, in the north, it is, though delicate and beautiful, a reasonably common, unimportant flower; it is also easily plucked, being defenseless, and can easily be crushed, overwhelmed and, if one wishes, discarded."
Slave Girl of Gor, page 62Flahdah
a tree of the Tahari having lanceolate leaves; the trunk leans, like that of a palm tree.Occassionally we passed a water hole, and the tents of nomads. About some of these water holes there were a dozen or so small trees, flahdah trees, like flat-topped umbrellas on crooked sticks, not more then twenty feet high; they are narrowed branched, with lanceolate leaves. About the water, little more then muddy, shallow ponds, save for the flahdahs, nothing grew, only dried, cracked earth, whitish and buckled, for a radius of more then a quarter of a passang, could be found what vegetation there might have been had been grazed off, even to the roots, one could place one's hand in the cracks of the earth; each crack adjoins others to consitute an extensivve reticulated pattern; each square in this pattern is shallowly concave. The nomads, when camping at a watering place, commonly pitch their tent near a tree; this affords them shade; also they place and hang goods in the branches of the tree, using it for storage.
Tribesmen of Gor Page 72Flaminium
a largish scarlet flower having 5 petals"There was a shallow bowl of flowers, scarlet, large-budded, five-petaled flaminiums, on the small, low table between us."
Hunters of Gor, page 154Flower Trees
it has lovely dangling loops of interwoven blossoms which hang from curved branches."And so we sat with our backs against the flower tree in the House of Saphrar, merchant of Turia. I looked at the lovely, dangling loops of interwoven blossoms which hung from the curved branches of the tree. I knew that the clusters of flowers which; cluster upon cluster, graced those linear, hanging stems, would each be a bouquet in itself, for the trees are so bred that the clustered flowers emerge in subtle, delicate patterns of shades and hues."
Nomads of Gor, page 217Hogarthe Tree
a tree of the Barrens named for one of the early explorers of the area. They tend to grow on the banks of small streams or muddy, sluggish rivers. Because they are so similar to poplar trees of Earth, Tarl imagines their seeds may have been transported to Gor.
Blood Brothers of Gor, page 300Kalana Tree
A yellow fruit bearing tree, fruit is harvested and used to make the kalana wine and the wood is used in ship building and making the long peasant bow"The Ka-la-na thicket was yellow in the distance..."
Captive of Gor, page 250"...a small bottle of Ka-la-na wine, in a wicker basket...I had never tasted so rich and delicate a wine on Earth, and yet here, on this world, it costs only a copper tarn disk and was so cheap, and plentiful, that it might be given even to a female slave...It was the first Gorean fermented beverage which I had tasted. It is said that Ka-la-na has an unusual effect on a female."
Captive of Gor, page 114"Ho-Hak reached down and unwrapped the leather from the yellow bow of supple Ka-la-na."
Raiders of Gor, page 19"Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor...."
Nomads of Gor, page 217Kanda
a shrub of the Gorean desert, a lethal poison can be extracted from its roots, while chewing
the leaves has an addictive narcotic effect"The roots of the kanda plant, which grows largely in desert regions on Gor, are extremely toxic, but, surprisingly, the rolled leaves of this plant, which are relatively innocuous, are formed into strings and, chewed or sucked, are much favored by many Goreans, particularly in the southern hemisphere, where leaf is more abundant."
Nomads of Gor, page 43Leech Plant
Attaches fanglike hollow thorns into the victim in order to suck his blood, which nourishes the plant.Once i shouted in pain. Two fangs had struck into my calf. An, ost I thought! But the fangs held fast, and I heard the popping, sucking sound of the bladderlike seed pods of a leech plant, as they expanded and contracted like small ugly lungs....The leech plant strikes like a cobra and fastens two hollow thorns into its victim. The chemical responses of the bladderlike pods produce a mechanical pumping action, and the blood is sucked into the plant to nourish it. Normally such plants are cleared from the sides of the roads and from inhabited areas. They are primarily dangerous to children and small animals, but a grown man who might lose his footing among them would not be likely to survive.
Outlaw of Gor Page 33 - 34Liana vine
a rainforest plant which can be used as a source of drinking waterAnother useful source of water is the liana vine One makes the first cut high over one's head, to keep the watrer from being withdrawn by contraction and surface adhesion up the vine. The second cut made a foot or so from the ground, gieves wine tube which, drained, yields in the neighborhood of a liter of water.
Explorers of Gor Page 310Needle Tree
a tree of the Thentis region, whose oil is used in perfumes and used in ship building"...and the needle trees, the evergreens, for masts and spars, and cabin and deck plankings."
Raiders of Gor, page 141Olives Groves
These come from the groves of Tyros."Clitus, too, had brought two bottles of Ka-la-na wine, a string of eels, cheese of the Verr and a
sack of red olives from the groves of Tyros."
Raiders of Gor, page 114Palm tree
More than 1500 varieties of palm trees exist in the rainforest, some with leaves more than 20 ft longThere are an incredible variety of trees in the rain forests, how many I cannot conjuecture. There are, however, more then fifteen hundred varieties and types of palm alone. Some of these palms have leaves which are twenty feet in length. One type of palm, the fan palm, more then twenty feet high, which spreads it leaves in the form of an open fan, is an excellent source of pure water, as much as a liter of such water being found, almost as though cupped at the base of each leaf's stem.
Explorers of Gor Page 310Fan PalmRence
found in the jungles of Schendi, more than 20 feet high, which spreads it's leaves in the form of an opened fan; an excellent source of water; as much as a liter at the base of each leaf's cupped stem."Have no fear," I said. "Your value on the sales block has not been reduced."
"Thank you, Master," she said.
I then rose to my feet and walked a few yards away, to a fan palm. From the base of one of its broad leaves I gathered a double handful of fresh water. I returned to the girl and carefully, washed out the wound. She winced. I then cut some leaves and wrapped them about it. I tied shut this simple bandage with the tendrils of a carpet plant.
Explorers of Gor...page 347
Grown in the marshes it has long thick roots about four inches thick which lies under the surface of the water, with smaller roots that sink down to the mud with stems 15-16 feet long, with a single floral spike. Used for food, fuel, wooden utensils, cloth, and paper."The plant has many uses besides serving as a raw product in the manufacture of rence paper…from the stem the rence growers can make reed boats, sails, mats, cords and a kind of fibrous cloth; further its pith is edible…"
Raiders of Gor, page 7"Then, from within the collar, he drew forth a thin, folded piece of paper, rence paper made from the fibers of the rence plant, a tall, long-stalked leafy plant which grows predominately in the delta of the Vosk."
Nomads of Gor, page 49Rep
A plant grown mainly for cloth. Seems to be cotton-like."...for example, rep-cloth....Some rep is grown, for cloth..."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 37"Rep is a whitish fibrous matter found in the seed pods of a small, reddish, woody bush, commercially grown in several areas, but particularly below Ar and above the equator; the cheap rep-cloth is woven in mills, commonly, in various cities; it takes dyes well and, being cheap and strong, is popular, particularly among the lower castes."
Raiders of Gor, pages 10-11Sim plant
a rambling, tangled vine-like plant with huge, rolling leaves, raised in the pasture chambers of the Nest
I did not know at the time but Gur is a product originally secreted by large, gray, domesticated, hemispheric arthropods which are, in the morning, taken out to pasture where they feed on special Sim plants, extensive, rambling, tangled vine-like plants with huge, rolling leaves raised under square energy lamps fixed in the ceilings of the broad pasture chambers, and at night are returned to their stable cells where they are milked by Muls.
Priest Kings of Gor Page 214Sip root
a bitter root whose extract is the active ingredient in slave wineA bitter root, which can either be made into a liquid contraceptive, or chewed, for the same result. The effect of the sip root, in most women is effective for three or four months. In the concentrated state, as in slave wine, developed by the caste of Physicians, the effect is almost indefinate, usually requiring a releaser for it remission, usually administered, to a slave, in what is called the breeding wine, or the second wine"
Blood Brothers of Gor page 319Ta grapes vines
Fruit similar to earth grapes comes from the Isle of Cos. Deep purple grapes. Make excellent wine, called ta-wine."The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta-grapes from the lower vine-yards of the terraced island
of Cos..."
Priest-Kings of Gor, page 45Talender
Delicate, yellow-petaled meadow flower, symbolic of feminine love and beauty, a crown of talendars is often worn by a free woman during the Companionship ceremoney, worn in a slavegirl's hair, it is a silent plea for her to be raped."...I saw of set of ridges, lofty and steep, rearing out of a broad, yellow meadow of talendars, a delicate, yellow-petaled flower, often woven into garlands by Gorean maidens.
Outlaw of Gor, page 131"The talendar is a flower which, in the Gorean mind, is associated with beauty and passion. Free Companions, on the Feast of their Free Companionship, commonly wear a garland of talendars. Sometimes slave girls, having been subdued, but fearing to speak, will fix talendars in their hair, that their master may know that they have at last surrendered themselves to him as helpless love slaves."
Raiders of Gor, pages 216-217Telekint
a plant of the Tahari; its roots, mashed & mixed with water, provides a red dyeThe rep-cloth was red, it had been soaked in a primitive dye, mixed from water and the mashed roots of the telekit
Tribesmen of Gor Page 83Tem-wood
A tree which produces a black wood, used in ship building.The lances are black, cut from the poles of young tem trees. They may be bent almost double, like finely tempered steel, before they break.
Nomads of Gor Page 15"...Tem-wood for rudders and oars..."
Raiders of Gor, page 141"...there was also, at one side of the garden, against the far wall, a grove of tem-wood, linear, black, supple..."
Nomads of Gor, page 217Teslik
a plant whose extract is the active ingredient in breeding wine
Blood Brothers of Gor, page 320Tor Shrub
translated as the 'bright shrub' or the 'shrub of light' because of it's abundant bright flowers either yellow or white depending on the variety. It flowers in the fall.
Vagabonds of Gor, page 339Tur
A reddish tree having a large trunk, said to be the inspiration for the name of the city of Turia. Provides wood for ship building and the host of the parasite, Tur-Pah, one of the ingredients of sullage."...there was one large trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled it's assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves of the Tur-Pah incidentally are edible and figure in certain Gorean dishes; such as sullage, a kind of soup; long ago, I had heard, a Tur tree was found on the prairie, near a spring, planted perhaps long before by someone who passed by; it was from that Tur tree that the city of Turia took its name;..."
Nomads of Gor, page 217"Tur wood is used for galleys and frames, and beams and clamps and posts, and for hull planking..."
Raiders of Gor, page 141Veminium
There are two types of vemimium; the bluish flower found on the Thentis range, and the purplish Desert Veminium, both are used in perfumesdesert veminiumVerr Grass"The petals of veminium, the 'Desert Veminium,' purplish, as opposed to the 'Thentis Veminium,' bluish, which flower grows at the edge of the Tahari, gathered in a shallow baskets and carried to a still, are boiled in water. The vapor which boils off is condensed into oil. This oil is used to perfume water. This water is not drunk but is used in middle and upper-class homes to rinse the eating hand, before and after the evening meal." thentis veminium
Tribesmen of Gor, pages 50-51"The atmosphere of the pool was further charged with the fragrance of Veminium, a kind of bluish wildflower commonly found on the lower slopes of the Thentis range;..."
Assassin of Gor, page 163"The petals of veminium, the 'Desert Veminium,' purplish, as opposed to the 'Thentis Veminium,' bluish, which flower grows at the edge of the Tahari, gathered in a shallow baskets and carried to a still, are boiled in water. The vapor which boils off is condensed into oil. This oil is used to perfume water. This water is not drunk but is used in middle and upper-class homes to rinse the eating hand, before and after the evening meal."
Tribesmen of Gor, pages 50-51On the shaded sides of some rocks, and the shaded slopes of hills, here and there, grew stubborn, brownish patches of verr grass.
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